Operations Research Proceedings 2018

Part I: Awards.- Part II: Business Analytics, Artificial Intelligence and Forecasting.- Part III: Decision Theory and Multiple Criteria Decision Making.- Part IV: Discrete and Integer Optimization.- Part V: Energy and Environment.- Part VI: Finance.- Part VII: Graphs and Networks.- Part VIII: Logistics and Freight Transportation.- Part IX: Metaheuristics.- Part X: Optimization under Uncertainty.- Part XI: OR in Engineering.- Part XII: Pricing and Revenue Management.- Part XIII: Production and Operations Management.- Part XIV: Project Management and Scheduling.- Part XV: Simulation and Statistical Modelling.- Part XVI: Software Applications and Modelling Systems.- Part XVII: Traffic, Mobility and Passenger Transportation.

Bernard Fortz is Professor in the Computer Science Department of Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) since 2006. He is currently head of the "Graphs and Mathematical Optimization" team. He holds a master degree in mathematics from the University of Namur (1993) and a Ph.D. degree in Operations Research, obtained in ULB in 1998. He then worked as postdoctoral researcher at AT&T Research-Labs and Maastricht University. From 2000 to 2006 he was associate professor at the Louvain School of Management (Université Catholique de Louvain).His main research interests are combinatorial optimization, network design applications, optimization of routing protocols in telecommunications networks, bilevel optimization and applications in energy. He is associate editor of INFORMS Journal on Computing and International Transactions on Operational Research and coordinator of the EURO Working Group on Network Optimization (ENOG). From 2012 to 2017 he has also been coordinator of the inter-university attraction center "Combinatorial Optimization: Meta-heuristics and Exact Methods" funded by the Belgian federal government. Since May 2015 he is vice-head of the cross-border team INOCS, a partnership between INRIA Lille and ULB.